List of Authors | Reflections on Abkhazia

Alexander KrylovDoctor of Historical Sciences, president of the Scholarly Society of Caucasus Studies, leading research associate of the Center for Problems of Development and Modernization at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. RUSSIA

Benedikt HarzlResearcher at the Russian East European Eurasian Studies Centre (REEES), University of Graz, AUSTRIA

Carol WeaverDepartment of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester, UK

Cem ÖzdemirCo-chairman of the German political party Alliance '90/The Greens. GERMANY

Charles KingProfessor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University. USA

Charlotte HilleAssistant professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. Dr Hille is specialised in State building, conflict resolution and international mediation. She is the author of State Building and Conflict Resolution in the Caucasus, Brill, 2010. NETHERLANDS

Chen BramResearch fellow at the Van-Leer institute, Jerusalem (and next academic year, 2012-2013 - visiting professor at the University of Florida, Gainsville). ISRAEL

Christopher LangtonDirector, Independent Conflict Research & Analysis (ICRA). He spent thirty-two years in the British Army. In that time he served as the Deputy Commander of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) as well as holding various attaché posts in Russia, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. UK

Daniel MüllerProgramme Director of the Joint Ph.D. Programme for the Social Sciences and the Humanities at TU Dortmund University. GERMANY

Ghia NodiaProfessor of politics and director of the International School for Caucasus Studies at Ilia State University, and chairman, the Caucasus Institute of Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD) in Tbilisi. GEORGIA

Marco SiddiMarie Curie Researcher at the University of Edinburgh. His main focus is on EU Russia relations and Russian foreign policy. Previously, he worked at the Trans European Policy Studies Association (Brussels) and at the Institute of World Economics (Budapest). UK

Mark BrodyIndependent journalist who specializes in the Caucasus. FRANCE

Maurice BonnotRetired French diplomat researching on de facto states problematics. FRANCE

Maurizia JenkinsIndependent Consultant, Former Political Officer of the United Nations Mission in Georgia. ITALY/UK

Michael CostelloPhD candidate, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury. Dissertation topic: “Can Law act as Adjunct to Custom? The relationship of custom and law in Abkhaz and Abkhazian state-building and ‘modernisation’”. UK.

Musa ShanibovFormer president of the Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus. Founder and Scientific Director of the Centre for Sociological Research of the Kabardino-Balkaria State University. KBR, RUSSIA

Rene WadlowSenior Vice-President and Representative to the UN, Geneva, Association of World Citizens. Formerly, he was Professor and Director of Research, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, University of Geneva. SWITZERLAND

Ronald Grigor SunyDirector of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan, as well as Emeritus Professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago. USA .

Sergey MarkedonovVisiting fellow in the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program. He is an expert on the Caucasus, as well as Black Sea, regional security, nationalism, interethnic conflicts and de-facto states in the post-Soviet area. USA/RUSSIA

Stanislav LakobaProfessor in Archeology, Ethnology and History at the Abkhazian State University. ABKHAZIA

Thomas de WaalSenior associate for the Caucasus at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) in Washington. He is the author of The Caucasus: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010). USA